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for its chief place, and opposite the Egda-folk,
Ranrice; at the extremity of which, upon the Goth’s
river, was an old border trysting-place of the Scandinavian
kings. These are the lands that border the
Wick, east and west.
North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and
Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and
runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the
Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching
up over two degrees of latitude. Through North
Mere pierces the great inland sea of the Throwends,
with its numerous creeks and headlands, such as
Agda-ness, Nith’s oyce or Nidaros, Frosta the mootstead
of the Throwends, each notable from some
event in Norwegian history. Down to this great
loch slope many deep and long dales, Orca-dale,
Gaula-dale, and others, from the upland hill-country
east and south.
North of Throwend-ham or Thrond-heim lies
Neam-dale with its coast station, Hrafnista, and, north
of that, Haloga-land’s barren five degrees of latitude
stretch along by the sea, north-east, ending in West-firth
and the great islands that head the Skerry,
islands only visited by Finnish fowlers, fishers or
huntsmen in those far-off days.
Such being the land, what manner of men dwelt
therein at the end of the eighth and the ninth century?
All the evidence we have points one way, that along
the west coast there were growing up vigorous fishing
and coasting trades (those true nurseries for seamen
here as elsewhere, for example in Hellas and England).
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